Hello. I'm taking part in a web startup challenge in London called Launch48 (www.launch48.com) - 150 entrepreneurs, designers and developers have got together at Paypal's offices with the challenge of creating 6 web businesses by the end of the weekend!

Easy, huh? My webapp idea was successful and voted in as one of the 6 tonight, so we now have to build it! We have a good team of about 14 people, including some great frontend folk, and backup from Paypal/google/amazon and others. But only one of our developers has drupal experience, and I'm worried that we're going to overload him with doing his job, and helping the others learn at the same time, in such a short space of time. I'm going to be tied up with the business and management aspects to manage the project and get a business plan and pitch ready for sunday. There doesn't need to be a lot of custom code, it's more just about how to use contrib modules, configure them - and perhaps a few tweaks here and there.

So... is anyone up for giving us tips, coaching, encouragement etc remotely this weekend? Would anyone mind if I introduce the other developers (who are all experienced, just new to drupal) to the drupalUK community on IRC and twitter so they can ask questions? Would anyone like to get really involved?

if so, email me your contact details at steve(a-t)steveparks(d-o-t)co()uk. My twitter account is @steveparks - all help and guidance gratefully received. I'm hoping that we can be succesful come sunday, and get some good exposure for drupal on webapp projects where people seem to want to go for The project is Wraply.com. here's the pitch

The presents people really want these days all cost between £100 and £500. The presents people can afford to give are all between £10 and £50. This is a big mismatch and means people get lots of unwanted presents, but don't get what they dream of. Think of getting that CD you'd normally just download, instead of the new iPod you really wanted. Wraply.com enables group giving so your friends and family can easily club together to get you what you want. You simply create a present page on the site by pasting in the URL of any product on the web. Wraply.com then creates the page by using the picture and description from the ecommerce site, and linking to it. Now you simply send the link to your present page to people who want to give you something nice for your birthday and they visit the page and make their contribution. Wraply is great for your own birthday, surprising someone else for their birthday, for work leaving presents, housewarming, engagment, holiday-trips-of-a-lifetime and more. If you can buy it on the web, and you'd like people to contribute to buy it as a present to you - then Wraply is for you.

The plan is to build it on pressflow with ubercart (initially just with paypal payments) and a bit of Feed API magic. It'll be hosted on amazon web services as they're providing the hosting free (so we'll just use Pantheon AMI). We have a very strong frontend team, so the theming and usability is well covered. Other teams in the competition are using ruby on rails, and other frameworks - but I'm really keen to use drupal, as I know its power! Please help me show drupal at its best to this potential new community! Thanks in advance for any help. :) Thanks Steve Parks (steveparks on twitter and IRC)